Notices by Dan Morris (coldfish@sfba.social), page 2

@plexus @evan lol! I'm so used to people asking me how stuff works, I just try to answer questions without even knowing who's asking.

I still can't figure out "how" to govern activitypub, but that's just me being slightly less ignorant than a regular user. :)

@jeffowski after he was imprisoned for a while to contribute to the private prison manufacturing economy.

@RickiTarr I don't think very many are really mad. They're still having a party. They never get mad until something they forced everyone else to endure happens to them. Only then do they care. And then, it's only that one particular issue. And even then, they'll got through a billion logical contortions to somehow excuse themselves from accountability.

@Uair @RickiTarr what scares me is that the Nazis could have completed the entire genocide of the jews and everyone else they hated and still been seen as a massive success to the rest of the world, except they attacked their neighbors and the world militiaries allied together and destroyed them.

That's scary, because it won't happen to us. Nobody is coming to save us.

Look at Israel. They're live on TV blowing up hospitals and apartment buildings and leveling Gaza. Tens of thousands murdered and "some" of the world simply looks at them in condemnation, but there will never be repercussions. After 3-4 generations, the Palestinians will be seen like our Native Americans. Just a few reservations, locked away from society.

Here in the USA? What will happen to people who are active against the right wing?

@jeffowski at the cafe I'm sitting in right now, the guy working here just told me he is happy trump won.

this asshole came here illegally from el salvador and got citizeship under Reagan's amnesty.

He said, "nobody wants a woman in charge. what did you expect? I'm happy".

After several hours of trouble shooting, I've decided that Crystal Reports is truly the tool of the devil.

@danilo Just wait until you spend a few years working with Angular every day....

@jess in a past life, 20+ yrs ago, I had a friend with a similar problem. For a small fee, one of the local Italian "lenders" had someone visit the guy and have a talk.

I mean... Not suggesting anything, but we literally never saw the guy again.

@workingclasshistory
for those who don't want to go to xitter:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_MOVE_bombing

i wonder if Israelis care that their reputation as a country is permanently tarnished. I mean, I will never buy, sell or work with anyone or any service from that country. I'll never trust anything they have to say or vote for people that support them if there is literally any other acceptable option.

@mike I think the "missing link" is actually getting those embedded posts made, like in a blog or news report or even on other social media, where you literally can drag a twitter widget into your wordpress page and you're done. There needs to be a way you can
1. Drag and drop a mastodon post
2. Somehow make a way to automatically link their instance user to the instance where the post was made. So you can just "reply" without any back and forth.

Once that's in place, I think you'll find more and more people will use it instead of Twitter, simply because a post on Mastodon from a news agency or a person is more likely to be legit and well thought out. Users here have some expectations that simply don't exist on Twitter.

@evan I've never had a single bad experience on mastodon. It's pretty amazing.

@freemo @scottsantens

This idea that giving someone support money or basic services is just enabling them is a falsehood that's been pushed heavily over the years, yet debunked just as effectively as trickle down economics.

I was living in an abandoned school bus and got the Catholic church to just give me free food. no questions asked.

When I got a job, I tithed 10% of my income for a decade.

For years, I lived in a house that is a family home and I didn't pay rent. I started a business and now have 2 offices, employ several people support a wife and 3 children, even taking on a foster child and supporting other family members in need.

Did that free food and rent cause me to be a layabout or did it enable me?

I don't think that everyone should get a free-ride, but I think people fall down and when they fall *all the way* down to drug addicted homelessness, that's easily avoidable if it's clear that there is a minimal level of food, housing and medical care easily accessible.

@freemo @scottsantens I used to believe this, but then the means-testing becomes a massive mess and subject to abuse. It's much much much cheaper to just give everyone a chunk and be done with it. "You a billionare? Here's your UBI. ". "You on the street? Here's your UBI"

It's not a free ride either. It's the difference between life and death for a lot of people.

And a LOT of families and friend groups have someone who's just beyond help. They just can't support them anymore due to drugs or mental issues or whatever, but feel horrible knowing they're on the street. To be able to have my idiot cousin come to me and say, "hey, I need some money to eat", and me being able to say, "Dude, you get $x.xx each month. That's enough and you need to stay the F away from me and my family".

It's either UBI (which I honestly don't think will work well enough) or public housing/food/medicine at some level where the biggest drug addicted idiot on the planet STILL won't be crapping on my front doorstep.

@l82be @feditips @Iancylkowski @theatticdwellers

Anyone can scrape data from the fediverse if it's listed as public data, otherwise it wouldn't work. FB Twitter, Google, etc... are private and allow some access, but that's it.